Trail Router vs Active By Choice
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trail Router
Discover new running paths with an intelligent routing algorithm that prioritizes parks, forests, and water features while avoiding busy roads. Create custom routes or let the app automatically plot round trips based on your preferences for nature, lighting, or terrain.
- Automatic round-trip route plotting
- Manual point-to-point route creation
- Preference for nature and water
- Avoids busy roads
- Route export to GPX/KML
- Customizable route preferences (nature, lighting, hills)
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Trail Router helps you discover new running routes. Our routing algorithm prefers paths that go through parks, forests or by water, and avoids busy roads wherever possible. Here's a few things you can do with Trail Router: * Automatically plot a round-trip route of a desired distance. * Manually create your own point-to-point route that prefers greenery and water. * Choose whether you'd prefer routes that involve nature, well-lit streets or a lack of hills. * Export your routes to GPX or KML, suitable for use on GPS watches
Active By Choice
Embark on your health and fitness journey with regular challenges and club updates. Seamlessly integrate with Apple Health to track steps, distance, and calories, and import data from wearables.
- Fitness challenges
- Club news and events
- Friend referrals
- Apple Health integration
- Wearable device data import
- Progress tracking
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Guiding you through your health and fitness journey! - Take part in regular fitness challenges - See all the latest club news, offers and events - Refer Friends to the club online Apple Health App Integration Track your progress with our HealthKit app integration to import and measure your daily steps, distance or calories burnt. Also use HealthKit to import your data from a range of different wearable devices.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Active By Choice at 5.0 against Trail Router's 4.6. Active By Choice also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). Trail Router's advantage is ratings volume (33 vs 7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Active By Choice holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 33 and 7 respectively.
Trail Router ships an update every 3 weeks, Active By Choice every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trail Router | Active By Choice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (33 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sam Crawford | TeamUp Sports |
Customer experience
Trail Router
Active By Choice
In-app purchases
Trail Router
No in-app purchases
Active By Choice
No in-app purchases
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